Termites: Evolution, Sociality, Symbioses, Ecology
Editors: Abe, Y., Bignell, David Edward, Higashi, T. (Eds.)
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The book is a new compendium in which leading termite scientists review the advances of the last 30 years in our understanding of phylogeny, fossil records, relationships with cockroaches, social evolution, nesting, behaviour, mutualisms with archaea, protists, bacteria and fungi, nutrition, energy metabolism,population and community ecology, soil conditioning, greenhouse gas production and pest status.
- Table of contents (20 chapters)
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Taxonomy and Phylogeny of Termites
Pages 1-23
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Global Patterns of Termite Diversity
Pages 25-51
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Characterizing the Ancestors: Paedomorphosis and Termite Evolution
Pages 53-75
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Early Fossil History of the Termites
Pages 77-93
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Diversity and Evolution of Caste Patterns
Pages 95-119
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Table of contents (20 chapters)
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Bibliographic Information
- Bibliographic Information
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- Book Title
- Termites: Evolution, Sociality, Symbioses, Ecology
- Editors
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- Y. Abe
- David Edward Bignell
- T. Higashi
- Copyright
- 2000
- Publisher
- Springer Netherlands
- Copyright Holder
- Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht
- eBook ISBN
- 978-94-017-3223-9
- DOI
- 10.1007/978-94-017-3223-9
- Edition Number
- 1
- Number of Pages
- XXII, 466
- Number of Illustrations
- 46 b/w illustrations, 8 illustrations in colour
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